The Awakening of the Negro Response

Booker T. Washington was born on April 5th, 1856 to a slave named Jane. He didn’t know much about his white father, but knew that he was classified as one of the mixed- black children. Washington’s autobiography Up From Slavery was focused on the commercial, agricultural, educational and industrial advancement of the African American society. In one of his entries “The Awakening of the Negro”, Washington focuses on helping the negroes from slavery to make something of themselves in their lives and not waste their time doing labor the hard way.


As a child Washington was inspired to success by this young girl who was poor. She wanted to play the piano and convinced her parents to rent a piano for some money each month. As a teenage black man, he was inspired to go to Hampton Institute to study and realize the real meaning of labor. I slept under a sidewalk, and by working on a vessel next day I earned money to continue my way to the institute, where I arrived with a surplus of fifty cents (Washington, 1896). By this quote, it explains to us that money back then did not stop people from achieving their dream. As a society today, we have to realize the sacrifices that the past has suffered just to give us what we have today. Washington was an intelligent individual who realized that Christian influence was apart of his spirit self-help. With aid from the State and generosity from the North, has enabled to develop an institution of eight hundred students gathered from nineteen states (Washington, 1896). After realizing what it took to be a man, Washington built Tuskegee Institute which became a great success in training young black men and women to become something of themselves from slavery. Students do the brick-masonry, plastering, painting, carpentry work, tinning, slating, and make most of the furniture (Washington, 1896). The purpose of the students to build the chapel is to give them a real idea of how you can build something successful and use it. They wanted to expose them to the real world and see if they could handle what they think they might possibly do for the rest of their life


Washington talks about this one negro who went to Tuskegee and graduated. In these meetings he taught the people in a plain, simple manner how to save their money, how to farm in a better way, how to sacrifice,--to live on bread and potatoes, if need be, till they could get out of debt, and begin the buying of lands (Washington, 1896). By a young black male graduate coming back to his home teaching the adults on how to save their money from only a three month program is remarkable; talk about inspiration!!!!!!!!! I think what Washington was trying to do was with his students is make them feel like they are wanted and needed for the education that they have chose to know. This leader, this guide and object-lesson, to show them how to take the money and effort that had hitherto been scattered to the wind in mortgages and high rents (Washington, 1896). Since this particular boy went to school, he was able to save his family and the others around him form making those bad decisions. This quote talks about how one person can steer others in the right direction. I believe that because this by was able to host meetings about their financial situations, Washington must have been proud to know that his work is paying off on somebody’s life.


The negro, it is to be borne in mind, worked under constant protest, because he felt that his labor was being unjustly required, and he spent almost as much effort in planning how to escape work as in learning how to work (Washington, 1896). Another system of Tuskegee was to get the negroes to understand the easier concepts of their work. They wanted them to actually learn the proper way of labor and not think about how they are going to escape it and quit. As the slave became free, he thought that the real world’s labor was going to be the same as the slave labor, so he always put the work to the side. There was no need to repair the wooden chimney that was exposed to the fire, because the water could be thrown on it when it was on fire (Washington, 1896). This is a perfect example of the slave’s mindset; they became lazy at doing the job when they knew they had a choice if they wanted to do the task that day or later.



Booker T. Washington wrote his autobiography to inspire the African American society. “The Awakening of the Negro” talked about educational and industrial training that put a mark on the economics of that time and how to make it better. The flaws about this entry was I felt at times the same thing was repeated over again, but in a different way or example. Washington kept talking about what Tuskegee had to offer for two pages front to back and it got kind of boring. I liked this entry because it taught me that a black man went to school and taught others to look out for themselves and told them how to labor their time wisely.

APA Bibliography on Pediatric Nursing

Feeg, Veronica D.(2008,July&August). Mentoring for leadership tomorrow: Planning for
succession today. Pediatric Nursing, 34, 277-278.
Feeg writes about pediatric nurses enrolling in a mentoring program of
shadowing the nurse who are entering “the golden years”. She feels that
PN Leadership Fellows, mentoring program, for future pediatric nursing should be guided by the ones who have the most experience to answer
questions and concerns. The argument of this article is that this program
will provide support, direction, and personal career counseling
assistance. Most likely every future nurse will go through something
similar to this whether it is shadowing or mentoring, I will be ready to
listen to the advice of the nurses who have gone through what I have yet
to expect and be aware of the pros and cons of pediatric nursing.
Griffin, Ruth A; Polit, Denise F; Byrne, Mary W.(2008,July&August). Nursing
characteristics and inferences about children’s pain. Pediatric Nursing, 34,
297-305.
The purpose of this article is to describe pediatric nurses’ responses toward children’s pain. Nurses were mailed surveys about three hospitalized students who have experienced pain and their task is to check the level of pain in the patients to know how much analgesia is to be given to them. The flaw about this idea for the article was that if a nurse makes a mistake on how much medicine should be given to the patient, they get documented for it and the patient has to suffer whether the medicine works or not. I guess it was to test the nurses’ knowledge about medicine, but the doctor should have been the one tested, not the nurse. This shows that anyone can be penalized in he medical fields based on the schooling that you have approached. Learning something new can make someone else either better or worse is what I have realized.
Gorman, Mary; Borovies, Dianne L.(1985,May-June). Comparative nursing hours
in tertiary pediatric facilities. Nursing Economics,3,146-151.
In this article, it talks about pediatric facilities having nurses work long
hours because of the intensive care their patients need. The National
Association of Children’s Hospitals operates the cost of pay for hours
the nurses put in. The argument in this article is to recognize the
dedicated nurses who put in time to do their jobs faithfully. As someone
who has to stay very long hours at work to take care of disabled children,
they have a lot of patience. I guess when money comes into play, anybody
do extra for a little more cash. I am not sure if I could be that kind of nurse
to work in the hospital; I would prefer a physicians’ office, there it is
quieter and a little less stressful.
Halfer, Diana; Graf, Elaine; Sullivan, Christine.(2008,July&August). The organizational
impact of a new graduate pediatric nurse mentoring program. Nursing Economics,
26, 243-249.
In this article, studies were taken under a pediatric medical center to compare job satisfaction and retention of new graduate nurses. It tells how successful mentoring programs are to the new graduate nurses and how it designs professional support toward the nurses advancing in their jobs. The argument was actually was whether the mentoring programs for the new graduate students worked or not. I think they did considering the fact that everyone who enrolled in the program considered the job and only a few changed their minds to do something else in the medical field. A mentoring program is what I will get myself into soon because I want to really make sure that this is the job of my choice.
Hong, Susan S.; Murphy, Susan O., Connolly, Phyllis M.(2008,July-August).Parental
satisfaction with nurses’ communication and pain management in a pediatric
unit. Pediatric Nursing, 34,289-293.
A study was performed on the pediatric unit of a tertiary care teaching
hospital. Some surveys were given to parents of each patient to evaluate
the staff. The parents responses were good according to the people who
read over them who work as the head of the hospital. Communication
between the nurses’, doctors’, and patient’s is the most important when
you visit a hospital. This article made me realize that a survey can say a lot
of things about your personality, the kind of service you provide, whether
or not you get to keep your job. It has taught me even when I have had a
day, someone is always watching your every move. Pediatric nursing is
what I would like to do with my life and I am ready for the ups and
downs.
Hurd, Jeanne Lemal.(1972,August-September). A new perspective on head start health
care. Health Services Reports, 87, 575-582.
Hurd writes in this article that all children should get the same amount of
health care form this Head Start Facility. She believes that even low-
income families should receive the same amount of health care. Food,
clothing, and housing are given to the families of children, but their
health should be the first thing on the list of things to take care of. By
organizing Project Head Start, she hopes the dilemma faced by public
health programs will be solved. I would be delighted to be a part of a
program like this ti help the less wealthier families. Making sure that
others are happy and feeling well is my number one priority.
Jennings, Pamela D.(2005,May-June).Providing pediatric palliative care through a
pediatric supportive care team. Pediatric Nursing, 31,195-200.
This article is about how the committee of Pediatric Pallative Care needs
to establish care for the children with life threatening illnesses. They
are looking for an outcome of more patient and family satisfaction; along
with a decrease of patients dying. What I particularly didn’t like about this
article was that it kept repeating on the diseases and deaths of children in
the area and how they were going to make a change. It kind of depressed
me a little to keep reading about how unsatisfied families were with the
kind of service they received. About nursing, there are a lot of emotional
struggles you have to get through. Life has a lot of emotional struggles and
because of that I will keep my head up when I walk in on my first day and
realize that it is a great opportunity to help others in need.

Disturbia the Movie

Cameron is a very nosey, adventurous, suspicious, under cover person who seems to want to solve things in his neighborhood that make no sense. So far in the movie, he has discovered his neighbor's secret and seen through his binoculars with his friend what he does to the women he brings home. Since he is on house arrest, he can not leave the house which makes it frustrating for him to really get to the bottom of this awkward situation with his neighbor. This lets us know that maybe cameron wants to be some sort of police investigator from his equipment he uses to find out these certain things. The house arrest anklet helps him to use what he has around him to be successful even though it seems to be a great burden on what he wants to really find out.

"Arent I a Woman" Response

Sojourner Truth was born Isabella Baumfree in Ulster County, New York. She renamed herself following a religious experience and beginning her career as a preacher for abolition and women's rights. Truth believed that woman should be treated with the upmost respect more than anyone else in the world. "Aren't I a Woman" was the speech Truth gave at the Women's Rights Convention in 1851 which was later transcribed and published.

I think that 'twixt the Negroes of the South and the woman of the North all a-talking about rights, the white man will be in a fix pretty soon(S.Truth). This is the opening quote toward this speech and Truth tells her audience that the white woman are treated differently than we are because the color of our skin. Pathos is not always making the reader cry, but makes them feel the pain and really internalize what is going on. I bet she got people's attention when she made this statement about how the white man will state his opinion against the black woman. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud puddles or gives me any best place, and aren't I a woman?(S.Truth) Sojourner Truth explains to her audience that the black community of women don't receive the help the white woman do. Pathos is present because people can see how a woman is treated and by using this particular man's opinion, she probably made him stop and think like yea she is a woman and what she is saying makes plenty of sense.

Truth uses certain examples to let us know that woman can be anything they put their mind to and that strong things come from a good start. I have borne thirteen children and seen them almost all sold off into slavery, and when I cried out with a mother's grief, none but Jesus heard(S.Truth). Here Truth tell us that she has had a lot of children and almost all of them were sold into slavery. She never stopped having kids because she was a strong woman who cries, but can take the pain along with agony while it lasted. She also states in her speech that she can do things that a man can do like plow, eat more, plant,and gather things in the barn. This shows a black is capable of dong things a white woman most likely wouldn't want to do, but she tells her audience between the lines that she has courage. If my cup won't hold but a pint and yours a quart, wouldn't you be mean not to let me have my little half-measure full?(S.Truth). This example had to be thought out because she compares this to the white woman's rights verses the Negro rights. The cup represents the Negroes not being able to get the respect that they desreve because othey are black. The other person with the quart is the society and the other rights having enough respect full blast, but not sharing it with the person holding the cup just to get half of what they have. The pointing of the finger showed how she felt toward the minster who made the comment about helping woman into carriages. I believe she got really upset because the way it all plays into one puzzle, she found the missing pieces with her attitude for that particular day about her own rights. An example towaard strong things come from good start is when a little man in black made a comment about how woman can't have the same rights as men becasue Christ wasn't a woman. Truth exploded when she heard this because she overexaggerated with telling him that Christ was from a woman. We all know he wasn't but the point taken here was if it had not been for woman, he wouldn't have been here. Since woman are just as important than men, woman should get equal rights is what she was trying to say. There was a source of thunder upon the crowd because everyone knew it was the honest truth figuratively. Her eyes were like bslls of fire because for a long time she must've held it in to really voice hjer opinion toward the white male.

By reading this, I have actually thought about how luycky we are today to not even go through things like this. For a black woman to fight for her own rights is a very powerful and strong woman. There are a lot of woman like this in the world, but they are afraid to show it because of what people might say. Truth really taught me to voice my opinion even though negativity might come my way and be grateful for the freedom I have today.

Comparison of Incidents and Fredrick Douglass

Both of these stories were very very good. The similarities of the two were they both happened in slavery. Fredrick Douglass' story leaned toward education and how he got to where he is now. It was like a different time in slavery for him during his story because he was able to talk to the little white kids without getting beaten for speaking. Incidentsleaned toward emotions and feelings between a man and a woman at that time in slavery. A slave girl could not be with a free negro because it was part of some of their rules. The master had to determine who was goiung to marry who, as in taking the role of a father like they do in Rome and Greece. A life story was in Incidents as well because the girl talked about her mother, the mistress and her grandmother. She explained to us that her mother and her favorite mistress died, so she felt that she had no one to really turn to but her grandmother.
love was talked about in Incidents because from it being a girl's point of view, it most likely was expected. Douglass told us about how he learned to read and write and in between the lines he proved to us that as a black male slave, he accomplished part of his dreams. Slavery in the setting of these stories was not harsh, but had its rules here and ther. Incidents forced slavery a little more than Fredrick Douglass.

Maybe or Maybe Not but I Tried!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thought About It Tooo!!!!!!!!!!!

Many may wonder why African American spirituals were written. Well an answer to this question would be: the slaves back then worked and worked all day long. If you notice, when you're doing some type of labor, you happen to hum a song or sing it. There was no music that they knew or could play so in the field they made up these spirituals. Not all of them were made this way, but the vast majority of them were.

I believe that Caucasian writers have taken over these rituals because they want the world to know that they have the knowledge to write about slave music. Ethos is established here because the caucasian authors want to emphasize that they have more knowledge than the original author who wrote it. They want to compose it in their own style and way to make it seem like were able to make something from black people. The primary audience would have to be other Caucasians who are inspired by these spirituals and maybe other authors who take interest in music. This audience would applaud the Caucasian author who "wrote" the piece and ask him to make another one.

Back then blacks did not matter to anyone besides being a slave. Slaves weren't allowed to be taught to read or write; so by taking credibility toward writing these spirituals,it shows toward the black community that we are unable to write good music without being able to read or write. I believe that it is wrong for others to plagiarize works of others but apparently since they are black it doesn't matter. If a black person came around and did the same thing in return, then he/she would get put in jail.

Poet's Corner

(Lead) How high can one fly, soaring through the sky with pride.
How high can one fly, soaring through the sky with pride.
(Others join in)
How high can one fly, soaring through the sky with pride.
How high can one fly, soaring through the sky with pride.
(Lead)
Soar high, fly with pride, soar high, fly with pride yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
(Others)
Soar high, fly with pride, soar high, fly with pride
(Lead)
ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh yea yea yeaaaaaaaaaa yea yea fly with pride!
(Others)
ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh yea yea yeaaaaaaaaaa yea yea fly with pride



My new lyrics changes the song's originality because it talks about flying high with pride. It contradicts the real meaning somewhat because the people want the chariot to swing low and my lyrics say fly high. Swing Low is more of anticipation to carry someone home to their rightful place. My version is based on self-reliance and feeling good about what you can do. The call and response does not happem form beginning to end on this song like the other spirituals, but it does consist of some toward the end.

Response for "The Slave's Dream" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born in Portland,Maine on February 27,1807.At fifteen years old he enrolled at Bowdoin College where he later found out that he wanted to be a writer.After the death of his first wife, he began to write poems that dealed with German romanticism. Longfellow also wrote poems on slavery and one of them happens to be "The Slave's Dream". A slave who hopes for freedom in side of a dream filled with excitement and anticipation ending in a tragic situation.
And then at furious speed he rode, at each leap he could feel his scabbard steel smiting his stallion's flank(Longfellow,"The Slave's Dream).Here the slave is riding a horse in the wind. He feels no sympathy toward the horse as he feels he has the power like his slavemaster;beating on an innocent victim that is doing work for himself. Some similies were used in this poem to solidify the feelings of the slave. Like a blood-red flag, the bright flamingoes flew; from morn till night he followed their flight(Longfellow,"The Slave's Dream"). This simile talks about the flamingoes relating to his experience in his everyday flying in the sky. He enjoys flying with them so much because it reminds him of freedom that he flys all day long.
Longfellow creates imagery with the trees, horses, the Niger bank, mountains, flamingoes flying, lions roaring,hyenas screaming. All of this gives the reader a chance to actually feel,taste and dream what is going on. In one of the stanzas the slave talks about his queen and the children following. Freedom comes to play because in slavery, it was impossible for a family to work together on the same plantation. His dreams that his children come and kiss him on his cheek and squeeze his hand was freedom toward his social life. At night he heard the lion roar, and the hyena scream, and the river-horse as he crushed the reeds(Longfellow). In the dream while he was lying beside the bank, the night sounds were probably sounds that the slave wanted to hear because of his confinement to yelling, sounds of whips all day long. Sounds of things we might think are scary and dangerous are most likely very interesting to him.
At the end of the poem, the slave dies when the poem says " For death had illumined the Land of Sleep". Thos might mean that from all of this dreaming or from him resting, a slavemaster could have killed him because he felt he was being lazy. Another can conclude that the slave was already dying and this dream was a peaceful thought he wants to stay with him forever.
Longfellow did a great job on leaving his reader's asking questions at the end and giving a sense of feeling and seeing what the picture he was trying to create. This poem makes me appreciate the freedom i have in my life and that a dream like this does not occur in my mind. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow had a good life and with this poem he has brought to my attention how great life is today in terms of freedom and rights.

The Gettysburg Address

1. In this address, Lincoln doesn't mention slavery,constitution,doesn't really talk much about the civil war.

2. The last sentence is basically talking about honoring the ones who have gone before us. it runs on and on about the dead's devotion toward us and how we should devote ourselves toward them. His argument is to honor the dead for the giid things they have done for us that cost their lives. I think the effect on his audience reading this would be to really think about our lives and how much better they are because of the veterans.

3. The Declaration of Independence and The Gettysburg Address was written to show our freedom and how our freedom came along. The two reflect different purposes because Abe Lincoln's point was to get us to think about the veterans and how we should honor them respectfully. The Declaration of Independence was to show on written paper that we as a nation can do whatever we want, have our own rights and beliefs toward specific topics no matter if our fellow man agrees or not. It shows that we can also alter our beliefs if we find that someone else's is better.

4. Actually there is really only one good speech that i have taken interest into and remembered some to tell people who have no idea about him. That speech was Dr. Martin Luther King and it compares to Lincoln's because they both talk about the values of freedom. King talked about how he has a dream that every white boy and black girl can join hands together without feeling any animosity. Lincon's coincides with that because he speaks about the veterans in the civil war and how we need to respect them because their lives cost us a life that is able to be and do whatever you like.Around that time, King had already spoke in front of thousands upon thousands of people with I Have A Dream.

Post on Notes

http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/rom.html

http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/realism.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_architecture

http://www.allabouthistory.org/age-of-reason.htm

Question #6- Scarlet Letter

Hester's attitude at the beginning of the novel was very secretive about the scarlet letter's meaning. She felt very out of place toward how everyone was treating her. In the beginning of the book, she let the scarlet letter get to her. She would stay in the house and stitch nice dresses (Chapter5)for Pearl in stead of going out and showing the town what she could do. As Hester and Pearl walked the streets, they would receive looks of disgust and people would say that the demon child was holding the hand of the adulterer. Hester thought about Pearl, and how she would feel when she was old enough to make friends. This is one reason why she didn't tell Pearl about the scarlet letter(Chapter 15), but the other reason was she felt she was too young to understand. When the minister and Hester had a conversation in the forest, (Chapter 16)Hester became a person who told the minister that they should break out of being the freaks of the town. She took off her letter and let her hair down. By doing this, she influenced the minster to write a sermon that not only talked about God, but talked about his feelings. Hester was ready for a change, but Pearl did not recognize her becausee the scarlet letter was what she knew her mother as. At the end of the novel, the minister died when he told Hester and Pearl to come walk with him in the recession.
Me,Eric,Kamille,Dylan,Matt,Cody and Michael are in my group

Desiree's Baby

http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/DesiBaby.shtml

Bradstreet's Bio

Anne Bradstreet was born in Northampton, England in 1612. Her father Thomas was the lead of soldiers who volunteered in the English Reformation and her mother Dorothy was a gentlewoman of noble heritage who was well educated. At sixteen, she married Simon Bradstreet who was twenty-five and an old assistant of the Massachusetts Bay Company. Anne and her family moved to America on the Arabella in 1630. This was a hard and rough journey that brought on malnutrition to the ones on board. Anne's family survived due to her intelligence and later came down with paralysis. This illness did not stop her, for she had eight children:Samuel, Simon, Dudley, John, Hannah, Sarah, Dorothy, and Mercy. Due to Simon's job, she would be lonely. So she spent her time writing poetry and teaching her children. Bradstreet soon came down with tubercolosis and as she contracted this disease, her daughter Dorothy died due to illness as well. Since the battle with her illness was more than she could bear,at the age of 60,Anne Bradstreet was put to rest on September 16, 1672.
"Anne Bradstreet Biography." Anne Bradstreet.january162003. 13 Sep 2008.

Bradstreet Response

Anne Bradstreet wrote poems to express how she feels about her life and her husband. One of the poems “The Author of Her Book” tells about her as a child growing up. The purpose of this poem was to let her audience know that she was not the wealthiest and did not care about what people said about her.There seemed to be like she had some self- esteem problems or she just felt that since she did not own much that she could never get rid of her flaws when she stated “I washed thy face, but more defects I saw, And rubbing off a spot still made a flaw.”
Bradstreet gave some credibility toward her poem when she wanted to dress better but she did not own homespun cloth. What appeals to the reader’s emotions is it seemed she wore rags as her clothes and people would make her even more conscience about herself by their pointing or laughing. Bradstreet knew she was poor and told us how she felt toward it. She mentioned that her mother was poor as well and caused her to go out of the door. It is unclear as to who left the house, perhaps Bradstreet was kicked out or she wanted to start her own life better than her old.
Anne Bradstreet’s second poem “To My Dear and Loving Husband” is pretty self-explanatory; it talks about her love, her husband.Bradstreet appeals to the women mostly and other readers in this poem because she talks about how her husband is loving to her and that she wants their love to continue to be everlasting, even after they have passed on to the heavens. The women receive between the line logos when Bradstreet said “If ever wife was happy in a man, Compare with me, ye women, if you can.” This meant that she wants the women to speak out in writing somewhere how their relationship is and how their husband provides for them .

Bradstreet compares her love for her husband to a river that u could not drink all of its water if you wanted to because it is overflowing. She prays that the heavens will open up and accept both of them in as one and that their love be forever ongoing.
The two poems we read could go together in some way because the first poem ended off with out of the door and the second poem started with two were one. It could be that after Bradstreet left the house, she quickly found love to fill the holes in her self-esteem to keep her from doing harm to herself.

Visual(de Vaca)

This is a picture of how Cabeza de Vaca described in the story of the work they had to do. He stated that the work sometimes tore into their flesh. The load on his back looks like leaves, some wood, maybe some fish, shrubs tied onto sticks. His back is somewhat red on the sides to symbolize his bleeding. The man is bent over to show us that he is tired, just as de Vaca described. He also talked about hiw his motivation for this work was his Saviour Jesus Christ because he thought of how Jesus must have felt bearing his cross alone up the hill and the throns on his head tearing into His flesh.

Cabeza de Vaca's words that described the work they did was cut, tore into flesh,blood, suffering, painful sores, heavy loads. The Natives were hard-working people and these words describe that everyday they worked for their lives in pain and suffering and even in agony. They made everything with their hands and that also shows that they are people who provide for themselves and the members of their family.

Simile

*Write a simile of a tree comparing to a domesticated animal.
- The tree's branches hung over in the wind like a tiger lounging out at its prey.

Cabeza de Vaca response

Cabeza de Vaca was captured after being arrested by the Indians to Spain. In this story he tells us what life was like living with the Indians and how they were different from his kind of living. The audience of this short story is the people who want to learn about de Vaca, mostly students and teachers. People fifteen and over would be able to understand what this story is talking. The Indians are described as these people who pierce themselves and treat their children and women with the upmost respect in some cases. They are respectful of the family of whom a soul has died and fast for three months anjd eat only what is provided by the neighbors, which is not very much. De Vaca describes the work their as bloody, skin cutting, and suffering. As ethos, de Vaca credits his Saviour being his source to continue his journey by saying, " Jesus Christ as my Redeemer shed his blood for me, how much worse it must have been to have thorns on his head!" He explained that the Indians' houses were made out of mats and the floors were made from oyster shells. The natives with some money slept on the shells in animal skins.

Daughters who married were responsible for taking everything her husband kills in hunting or catching to her father-in-laws house without eating any of it. The husbands do not sleep with their wives until after they are discovered pregnant and two years after the baby's birth. The children are breast fed until they are twelve, which to the Natives is old enough to find your own support. This reason being if the Indians were to not eat for three to four days, children not being able to stand the milk will become weaklings and be left to die if they were to ever take a long trip. The only ones that would be able to stay would be a son or brother by being carried across the back of another. The husbands have permission to leave their wives when they come to a disagreement, unless they have children together where he must stay.

Men who have problems with each other box it out until they both are exhausted and ahve to move away with their family until they are calm and collected. When they return, the fighters have to squash the situation as if it never existed.

De Vaca was joyous when they encountered the Christians because he met along the way people who cared about life, lived on a beautiful island, and were actual Christians to the "non" Christians with whom the Indians battled for a moment. After the altercation, the Christians took de Vaca, Castillo, and Dorantes away from communication with the Natives into the forest and to their town where the men helped rebuild their city.